Its geometric forms (a cluster of cylinders and squares capped by an array of decorative roofs) has some of the haunting qualities of the designs of Aldo Rossi, who saw cities as repositories of memory as melancholy as a de Chirico painting.
Students have tossed the square cap with tassels into the sky to mark their graduation from university since 1912.
The Cap The rigid "mortarboard" (a term apparently first used in the 1853 novel "The Adventures of Mr. Verdant Green, an Oxford Freshman") morphed from a tufted, square cap called a pileus quadralus worn by medieval laity.
As "Pomp and Circumstance" played, the seniors, in their powder-blue gowns and square caps, took seats in rows of folding chairs facing an elevated platform where Sandberg; Debora Spar, the president of Barnard; and other luminaries sat.
The main refinements are: inclusion of a uniform surcharge load on the embankment fill, individual square caps were used, and taking into account the skin friction mechanism, which contributes to soil geosynthetic interface resistance.
Ms. Tejada shook her head when she glanced at her younger self with a thicket of curly bangs under a blue square cap and satin gown, her inch-long, fire-engine-red fingernails gingerly cradling a bouquet of red roses.
Open image in new window Fig. 8 Group helical piles after driving and fixing square cap .
Sights of fresh graduates flinging their square caps always harks me back to my time at college, which is strange since my college did not hold a convocation ceremony for us.
The doorway and the windows are round-headed, and around the top of the chapel is a cornice and a balustrade with square piers capped by swagged ball finials.
19 Comparisons can also be drawn with Pd clusters: [Pd23 CO 20 PEt 10] consists of a centered cuboctahedral {Pd13} core, with square faces capped by Pd atoms in the sites occupied by the six MnII in {Mn18Cu6}.
